December 26, 2014
T-Mobile is the only one from the Big Four cell phone service carriers from the United States which has the origin in another country. More specific, in Germany, under the name of Deutsche Telekom, name received in 1995 and which also entered on the market of the U.S. more than 10 years ago. In July 2002 that is. At this moment, Deutsche Telekom is operating in 15 countries, from which 12 are from Europe: Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and the United Kingdom.
It has 53 million subscribers in America
Besides, apart from those and the United States of America, the company also functions in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. This way, they have a huge number of subscribers in all World, which reaches 250 million at the end of this year, 2014. In the U.S., other companies that work under the T-Mobile brand are MetroPCS and GoSmart Mobile. All of these reached together more than 53 million subscribers in this part of the World and also bring 21.35 billion annual revenues.
It entered the U.S. market in 2001
In Germany, the operator was named initially Deutsche Bundespost Telekom, name which was changed in 1995, as we said before, and one year after the privatization process started. One of their major hits was, of course, entering on the market of the United States in 31st of May 2001, when they bought VoiceStream Wireless Corporation for 35 billion dollars and renamed the brand after 14 months with the actual name, T-Mobile. It is important to mention that this is a nationwide network at which 96 percent of the population has access.